Not just that, but the adrenaline they give you from eating them and the fact that it is health over time is really handy at the start. You can eat a couple burgers and go chase a guy down with your fists.

I was on vacation and riding down a particularly sandy road. It was two friends and myself; one was leading, I was in the middle, and the other one was in the back. It was a long curving road and up ahead there was a speed-bump. My friend in front of me didn't see it in time because there was a large patch of sand hiding it. So, right as he got to it, he noticed the speed-bump and had to brake hard. His motorcycle was a dual sport so it was able to take the hard brake and jump over the bump. Mine on the other hand is a cruiser and not made for crazy stuff. I had to brake hard to avoid hitting him and flying off the bump, which on the sand caused my tires to lose traction and the bike slid out as soon as I went over the bump. Fortunately, the back tire lost traction first which is why the bike slid out instead of me flying over the handle bars. I got scraped up, and the bike got a couple dents, but I was still able to enjoy my vacation.

You should try bump starting it. A fuel injected bike won't turn on if you try to bump start it with a completely dead battery. Considering that your lights still turn on and they weren't dim it is clear you still have some charge left in it.

In The Matrix the robots use humans as batteries! (And recycle the dead into nutrient solution to help feed the living.)

This was all Executive Meddling. The original story had the brains of the humans being used as part of a neural network for additional computing power. But the suits thought that was too hard for people to understand. So instead we get them as batteries, which is a major liberty with the laws of physics, as well as a huge headscratcher - why not keep the humans sedated, and not have to waste power on the Matrix? Or just use animals?

In The Matrix, the Wachowski siblings had wanted to have the machines use the humans plugged into the Matrix as a gigantic neural network computer. However, executives thought that the audience wouldn't understand this, so they changed it to using the humans to generate electricity, even though this violates the laws of thermodynamics and creates several plot holes (though some fans find it a decent enough metaphor).

Have you ever heard of the book Breaking Open the Head? I highly recommend it. Words cannot do the psychedelic experience justice, but this book comes awfully close. If you'd like I can pm you my copy.

It's a culmination of people cutting corners. This sort of thing happens on a semi regular basis here. A couple years ago a bridge collapsed while it was being tested with live humans (some guys from the army were ordered to stand on it) because it's cheaper than setting up tests with proper weights. A few years before that a building in Medellin collapsed. It's the 3rd world.